If I get killed, put my boots back on me.

Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life.  That's the hope, anyway.

The bottom line is that we are all inclined to denial when the truth is too costly—whether emotionally, intellectually, or financially. As Upton Sinclair famously observed: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”36

In Phnom Penh, it seems that the more money you have, the more stairs you have to climb to your home. Ma

Written By Loung Ung

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